Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [wishlist] Request no-cache when reading .listing files

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:01, Jan Hudec wrote:

> For these people, it would be really good, if tla could make requests
> for .listing files, and only these files, with the
> Cache-Control: max-age=0
> header. All the other files in archive are never modified, so it safe
> (and good) to cache them.

max-age=0 may impede performance significantly. As .listing files are
only used on mirrors or read only archives, something like max-age=120
would achieve the same goal - noticing changes in a reasonable time, but
wouldn't force a full read every single request - and there may be
multiple requests in a single tla session...

Also, note that some proxies are not HTTP/1.1 aware and will simply
ignore max-age directives.

Cheers,
Rob
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